Dith Pran
Dith Pran (Khmer: ឌិត ប្រន; 27 September 1942 – 30 March 2008) was a Cambodian photojournalist. He was best known as a refugee and survivor of the Cambodian genocide.
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| Born | 27 September 1942 |
| Died | 30 March 2008 (aged 65) |
| Employer | New York Times |
| Known for | The Killing Fields |
Pran died on 30 March 2008 in New Brunswick, New Jersey from pancreatic cancer, aged 65.[1]
References
- Pyle, Richard (March 31, 2008). ""Killing Fields" survivor Dith Pran dies". The Associated Press. Archived from the original on April 10, 2008. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film "The Killing Fields," died Sunday. He was 65.
Other websites
- Dith Pran at Find a Grave
- "Dith Pran Biography". Retrieved 2008-03-31.
- The Dith Pran Holocaust Awareness Project at the Internet Archive
- The Last Word of Dith Pran New York Times.
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